Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
DNA Spirit

Location:   Expo Hall  108   


This exhibit will demonstrate a variety of ways to use hands-on model building to understand and appreciate the beauty of the DNA double helix structure, which encodes the complete genetic makeup of an individual. All models can be built in a short period of time using LEGO, knitting tools and cardboard.

Web site: http://bioinformaticscore.blogspot.com/

Project photo.

About the Maker(s)

Dawei Lin Dawei Lin [
Dr. Dawei Lin received his PhD from Peking University, China in Computational and Structural Biology. He started his career at the Protein Data Bank (PDB) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a worldwide repository for macromolecular 3D structures. He is currently the Director of the Bioinformatics Core at UC Davis Genome Center, where he is leading a team to provide expertise and infrastructure to carry out acquisition curation, and distribution of complex data sets as well as to develop and perform computations, analyses and simulations addressing a wide variety of biological questions from genomics to network biology.
http://bioinformaticscore.blogspot.com/